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The actor, 60, while out promotingMission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part Onein Rome, toldEntertainment Tonighton Sunday, “I’d love to make a movie with her!”
The outlet showed Cruise ET’s interview with Johansson, 38, last week at herAsteroid Citypremiere, when she first expressed interest in working with theTop Gun: Maverickstar.
Cruise said that he’s “been wanting to make a movie with her” and later added, “Sounds like I’m gonna.”
“She is enormously talented,” Cruise continued. “So charismatic, versatile. She has great physical ability obviously.”
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Johansson, “the world’s highest-paid actress” perForbes’calculations in 2019, recently reflected on the more challenging aspects of her earlier career, including rejection.
“I got turned down for two roles — the first wasIron Man 2and then the other one was Alfonso Cuarón’sGravity,”she toldVarietylast month.
She continued: “I had wanted that role so much. It was sort of the straw that broke the camel’s back. I felt really frustrated and hopeless. Like, ‘Am I doing the right job?’ "
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While Johansson didn’t land the role inGravity, she praisedSandra Bullock, 58, for her performance.
“I did a screen test for the movieGravity, that Sandra Bullock is fantastic in, but I had to be in like the full whole space suit thing, and sort of pretend I was kind of like floating in space,” she recalled. “Even though I was just sitting in a chair with a helmet on.”
The mom of two said she was typecast as a bombshell following her role in Sofia Coppola’s 2003 film,Lost in Translation. The stereotype stunted her growth as an actress.
“The work I was being offered [after] felt deeply unfulfilling,” she explained. “I think I was offered every Marilyn Monroe script ever. I was like, ‘Is this the end of the road creatively?’ ”
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Elsewhere in Cruise’s interview Sunday, the adrenaline junkie, who famously performs his own stunts, revealed how he relaxes.
“Thisis what I do. I make movies!” he toldET. “This is it. I love it. I absolutely love it. This is a privilege.”
source: people.com
